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My colleague, ClickZ Executive Editor, AnnaMaria Virzi, tipped me off to a Gawker.com post online that’s only received a little more than a thousand views and very few comments this morning. Gawker.com is the Nick Denton Web site where bloggers are paid “per post” to blog about pop culture and media gossip.
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In an FTC filing in the US about Ask.com, and testimony before the European Parliament about Google’s DoubleClick acquisition, the Electronic Privacy Information Center complained of the potential threat to individual online privacy.
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Pressure on Yahoo to outsource search to Google or MSN continues to mount. Breaking Views in today’s WSJ slams Jerry Yang’s strategy to remake Yahoo into the front page of the Internet. The column calls for activist investors to shake up “discredited management,” outsource search, and spin off Asian investments in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.
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Allegations of patent infringement by Google earned Northeastern University and the company licensing the technology a countersuit from the search advertising company.
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Eric Ward doesn’t mind pointing out that of the top ten Google results for "link building expert" his name pops up six times. Call it good keyword branding if you like, bust most in the SEO industry will tell you he’s earned his title. Because of that, it might sting a little more when he [...]

Most affiliate marketers have experience it at least once. You go to check your site stats and notice that your site has gotten more than 5 times the amount of traffic you usually see in a month and all that brand new traffic has arrived TODAY. Your heart slams in your chest a little [...]

The head of Yahoo’s real-time communications thinks the low adoption of Google’s products beyond search and Maps is rooted in that company’s engineering culture.Without a focus on usability, products have little chance of moving beyond a small group of high-tech users to reach a broader audience. Yahoo’s Jeff Bonforte held court with reporters and dispensed [...]

Shuman Ghosemajumder dedicated two blog posts to blasting ClickForensics and its latest assessment of click fraud taking place in the pay per click industry.
Who to believe? Shuman has been spoiling for this fight ever since SES San Jose 2006, when he offered some comments about how third parties measure click fraud, first saying in an [...]

An article titled “How Yahoo Blew It” has been making the rounds, and although similar stories appear every day, this one had a bit of heft: it appeared in Wired. Yahoo is now firing back - or, to be more accurate, politely responding.
Fred Vogelstein’s original article chronicled mistakes and difficulties throughout the search engine [...]